Barcelona officially paid off the salary of Lionel Messi and Ronald Koeman’s salary

Gilabola.com – Barcelona finally managed to pay off their salary debt to Lionel Messi and former coach Ronald Koeman – as well as a number of other players, with the latest payment of 16 million euros or around 304 billion rupiah.

The Barcelona Board of Directors have officially completed the last payment of the delayed salary that must be paid by the Catalan soccer club to the players and staff from the 2020 squad – closing the finance round rooted in one of the clubs darkened.

As revealed CulemaniaThe Blaugrana has disbursed the remaining 16 million euros from 121.7 million euros (2.3 trillion rupiah) which were deferred during the peak of their financial crisis.

The economic collapse that began under the leadership of former President Josep Maria Bartomeu, was exacerbated by Pandemi Covid-19, who forced the club to take emergency action.

At the end of 2020, an agreement was made to postpone some of the salaries of players and staff to avoid the financial collapse of the club.

Four players-Marc-Andre ter Stegen, Frenkie De Jong, Gerard Pique and Clement Lenglet-were issued from the salary payment list, because the contract extension was signed before Bartomeu left.

Then, other players in the squad agreed to postpone 42.9 percent of their fixed salary and 100 percent of their variable bonuses were divided into eight scheduled payments, starting from December 2021 to June 2025.

The last installment has now been paid, until Barcelona succeeded in closing their crucial financial obligations.

Lionel Messi remains at the top of the Barca salary payment list

As has been estimated, Messi is the most unpaid player of Barca, which is 47.6 million euros – equivalent to 886.5 billion rupiah – of which 5.96 million euros or around 113 billion rupiahs included in this last payment.

Next is Samuel Umtiti (9.9 million euros suspended), followed by Sergio Busquets (8.2 million euros), Antoine Griezmann (8 million euros), Jordi Alba (7.6 million Euros) and Philippe Coutinho (6.6 million Euros).

While with Ronald Koeman – who made peace with Joan Laporta on Friday (6/27), Barca had arrears nearly 6 million euros as part of the arrears of his staff salary.

While other names including Ousmane Dembele and Miralem Pjanic (5.1 million euros), Sergi Roberto (4.8 million euros), Neto (2.5 million euros), Sergino Dest (1.3 million Euros), Martin Braithwaite (1.2 million Euros) and Junior Firpo (1.1 million Euro).

Meanwhile, Barca also paid arrears in the salary of players who were less than 1 million euros, which were owed to younger players such as Ansu Fati, Pedri, Ronald Araujo, Riqui Puig, Francisco Trincao and Carles Alena.

Nine players with the highest salary from team B also received payments for their salary arrears, including Inaki Pena, Oriool Busquets, Alex Collado, Jandro Ollana, Rey Manager, Arnau Tenas, Konrad De La Fuente, Hiroki Abe and Matheus Pereira.

With this last 16 million euro payment, Barca has officially paid one of the most urgent bartomeu inheritance debts to be paid, and this success even marks the financial turning point ahead of the rolling season 2025 2026.